Chengsi Zhou | Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University, Deputy Director of the Department of Journalism

Email: zhoucs@whu.edu.cn

Education

• Wuhan University | Ph.D. in Journalism and Communication

• Postdoctoral Research in Political Science

Professional Experience

• Former journalist, editor, and department head at Southern Media Group and Hubei Daily Media Group, covering financial journalism, disaster and environmental reporting, and political news.

Academic Positions

• Research Fellow, Media Development Research Center, Wuhan University

• Selected Faculty Member of the First Cohort of the National Public Communication Training Program (Central Propaganda Department of China)

• Executive Editorial Board Member of Southern Media Studies

Research Interests

• Political Communication

• International Communication

• News Production

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

• News Interviewing and Writing

• Integrated News Reporting

• Comprehensive Practice of Convergent Media News Production

Graduate Courses

• Convergent Media Journalism Practice

• Specialized News Reporting Research

• News Release and Public Opinion Guidance

Research Achievements

• Published multiple academic papers in political communication, environmental, and disaster communication.

• Principal Investigator of research projects funded by China’s Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Fund (2019), Hubei Provincial Soft Science Key Project (2025), Hubei Provincial Teaching Reform Research Project (2024), Wuhan Social Science Post-Funding Project (2024), etc.

• Chief editor of Integrated Journalism and co-author of Marxist Journalism in Practice.

• Authored multiple policy reports and advisory papers, some of which have received high-level governmental endorsements.

Honors & Awards

• Recipient of over 20 national and provincial journalism awards, including the China Journalism Award.

• Awarded First-Class Merit and Advanced Individual Recognition by the Hubei Provincial Government.

• Recognized as a “Top 100 Young Talents in Propaganda and Ideology in Hubei”.

• Winner of Teaching Excellence Awards at Wuhan University, including the Young Faculty Teaching Competition and Teaching Innovation Contest.

• Supervised student projects that have won awards at competitions such as the University Journalism Award, China Data Journalism Competition, and Campus Media Contest.